13 Hackney GoodGymers ran 5k to help save everything useable from the soon to be closing Cordwainers Grow garden.

An evening in the daylight but punctuated with wind, rain, sunshine and of course hailstones!!

A crazy close task allowed two of or runners to walk to the task even bringing along George the dog to sing us doggie rap while we shifted stuff!

A sad evening for everyone involved in Cordwainers Grow garden as the land it is on is being sold on to be developed! After many years of amazing gardening and creating a community of amazing people who enjoyed a bit of gardening pretty much everything had to go!

So we rolled tyres, carried benches, log seats, plants, worm boxes, Wood, bee shelves, bagged compost, bricks and even a mower to create an Aladdin’s cave of useful community garden that was free to the first person who saw it along Mare street.

35 minutes and everything that was not a shed was removed and we were done! A rewarding up run looping along the canal to round us up to 5 strong K of running finished off the evening!!

See you next week for our visit to Abney!

#GoodGymHackney

Joel